Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Contemporary Musical Modernisms Study Group: Inaugural Meeting and Training Session
Session Topics: 1900–Present, Composition / Creative Process, Philosophy / Critical Theory
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Contemporary Musical Modernisms Study Group: Inaugural Meeting and Training Session Organized by the AMS Contemporary Musical Modernisms Study Group. This new Study Group seeks to explore how the phrase ‘musical modernism’ still has disciplinary relevance and conceptual integrity in the contemporary moment. We go about this in a reflexive, ‘bi-focal’ fashion, asking not only if and how modernism still lives and activates today in fields of music study and production; but also how episodes in a longer modernist past transform under the gaze and audition of a present similarly characterized by pervasive interlocking crises, extraordinary technology acceleration, and a wildly shifting global order. Our Inaugural Meeting is hence framed as an introductory training session, aimed at getting us to think otherwise about musical modernism and the contemporary, asking why, how, and what: Why revise older analytic and conceptual methods and develop new ones? How do we do this with an eye toward relevance and resonance vis-à-vis music’s present societal, technological, and historical conditions? And what could this contemporary reflection reveal to us about both past and future modernist musical legacies? In a spirit of serious play, and with eye and ear trained on the venerable modernist strategy of testing, this session places modernism on trial. A jury of academic peers will consider what is plural and what singular in modernism, what completed or obsolete, and what still living or haunting. This jury will then weigh up evidence for modernism as a source of energy sufficient to fuel new work on the past, present, and future. The jury is constituted by a panel who present short papers in series, followed by a group discussion. The panelists are:
The meeting will be chaired by the Study Group’s three co-convenors: Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago), Christine Dysers (Aalborg University), and Samuel J. Wilson (Guildhall School of Music and Drama). | |